The restaurant industry is promoting "extreme eating" with high-calorie, salt-stuffed food, putting Canadians' health serious risk, a consumer advocacy group says. The Center for Science in the Public Interest says restaurants in Canada and the U.S. are contributing to an obesity problem by serving high-fat foods to consumers. "When you go shopping, you see those handy nutrition fact labels on the sides of packages but when you're going to a restaurant, there's no such information, you're buying blind," Michael Jacobson, the centre's executive director, told CBC News on Tuesday.
The CSPI on Monday criticized a series of U.S. chain restaurants, including Ruby Tuesdays, Uno Chicago and the Cheesecake Factory, for their high-calorie fare. But Jacobson noted that many restaurants north of the border are also guilty of marketing fattening food products. |